xml sitemap

XML Sitemaps: Making It Easier For Search Engines To Crawl Your Site Have you recently updated your URL structure from underscores to hyphens? Are you constantly updating products and pages on your website? If so, it might be time to dig into XML Sitemaps, and get yours updated. Let’s take a look at this important and sometimes […]

How many times have you looked at an XML sitemap and said, “Why are these URLs in here?” One time, I was getting so frustrated doing an indexability audit for my client because Google wasn’t paying attention to canonicals for a variety of reasons. One in particular was the XML sitemap not pointing to the […]

It is that time of the year again. You can feel it in the air and see it everywhere you go. The lights are on the neighbors’ houses and the stores are getting more and more crowded as we get closer to the 25th. For children, Christmas is a magical time where they dream every […]

So you have put together a website and have it published on the web. All the content is in place and all your site’s functionality is working properly. What comes next? This question can be answered by answering another question I have seen several times on the forums at SEO.com and other forums that I […]

Google announced the release of their own open source XML sitemap generator tool. There are several third-party sitemap tools around that do a great job, but Google decided that they could add some value with their own tool. As they describe it: Unlike many other third party Sitemap generation tools, Google Sitemap Generator takes a […]